Farewell to Gillo Dorfles, passes away the great art critic

The great art critic Gillo Dorfles has passed away in Milan at the age of 107. He would have been 108 years old on April 12. Born in Trieste, when the city was still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Angelo Eugenio Dorfles, known as Gillo, graduated in medicine and then specialized in psychiatry, but he was always interested in art and aesthetics. A painter himself, he taught aesthetics at the Universities of Milan, Cagliari and Trieste, and in 1948 founded the Movimento per l’Arte Concreta, along with Atanasio Soldati, Galliano Mazzon, Gianni Monnet and Bruno Munari, a participant in one of the most fruitful seasons of Italian culture.

At the theoretical level, his contribution was substantial for the definition ofItalian contemporary art following the DOpoguerra. Famous are his essays such as Discorso tecnico delle arti (1952), Il divnerie delle arti (1959) and Ultime tendenze dell’arte d’oggi (1961), all books that have been reprinted several times. Until the last, Gillo Dorfles had remained in the thick of his activity, participating in exhibitions, lectures, conferences and meetings.

Farewell to Gillo Dorfles, passes away the great art critic

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